How could a friendship with an older person like Mrs. Flowers help someone who is in trouble?

My guy we need to know the passage you read we dont know who mrs. flowers is LOL

Explanation:

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

"b"

hine was able to receive a high school and college education.